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| Michael L McManusSummaryAffiliation: Harvard University Country: USA Publications
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Variability in surgical caseload and access to intensive care servicesMichael L McManus
Department of Anesthesia and the Multidisciplinary Intensive Care Unit, Children s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Anesthesiology 98:1491-6. 2003..Intensive care units may frequently present bottlenecks to patient flow, and saturation of these services limits a hospital's responsiveness to new emergencies...
Queuing theory accurately models the need for critical care resourcesMichael L McManus
Department of Anesthesia, Pain and Perioperative Medicine, Children s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Anesthesiology 100:1271-6. 2004..Although mathematical tools have been suggested for determining the proper number of intensive care beds necessary to serve a given demand, the performance of such models has not been prospectively evaluated over significant periods...
Managing unnecessary variability in patient demand to reduce nursing stress and improve patient safetyEugene Litvak
Boston University, Boston, USA
Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 31:330-8. 2005..Al forms of artificial variation in the demand and supply of health care services should be identified, and pilot programs to test operational changes should be conducted...
Total phenytoin concentrations do not accurately predict free phenytoin concentrations in critically ill childrenGerhard K Wolf
Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Pediatr Crit Care Med 7:434-9; quiz 440. 2006..Instead, free phenytoin concentrations should be routinely measured in critically ill children to prevent possible intoxications and ensure therapeutic dosing. Corrections using the Sheiner-Tozer equation were unreliable...
Design and implementation of a portable physiologic data acquisition systemKevin Vinecore
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, OR, USA
Pediatr Crit Care Med 8:563-9. 2007....
